Startups Weekly: What the E-Trade deal says about Robinhood

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How well do Robinhood’s business stack up against incumbent online brokerages? While we wait for the seven-year-old company’s long-planned IPO, Alex Wilhelm examined Morgan Stanley’s big $ 13 billion purchase of E-Trade for fresh data comparison items. Robinhood has 10 million accounts — twice what E-Trade has — but it also is reported to manufacture much less money per customer and has far fewer assets under control, as he covered for Extra Crunch. So while its fee-free approach has destroyed a key revenue stream for competitors, it still has to grow its own ” order-flow ” business into its private-market valuation.

One solution is to impel the pulpit stickier via social peculiarities. On the same day as the E-Trade deal announcement, Robinhood launched a new Profiles feature to encourage useds to share stock tips-off. Josh Constine explored the render and where it is headed on TechCrunch, concluding that” Charts and indices, and then eventually more social features, could get Robinhood’s useds selling more so there’s more require flood to sell and more rationale for them to buy dues .”

Alex also took a look at a new report on fintech fund, which learnt last year was a peak overall — but skewed towards later-stage fellowships. Certainly, the affluence management segment is looking mature.

But the category is massive, with many more incumbents left to disrupt. What are fintech investors looking forward to? Check out our favourite investor overlook on this topic from November.

How your startup can use TikTok for rise You know that TikTok is where the cool boys are these days, but perhaps … how do I say … it is not the social media stage you are well aware best when it comes to growth. So Genevieve Patterson and Hannah Donovan, founders of TikTok-oriented video editing app Rubbish, have published a two-part guide to help you figure it out.

The first part, freely available on TechCrunch, accompanies you through how to increase your permission ranking in the TikTok algorithm, its review process, and needles for shaping your own content. The second responsibility, for Extra Crunch customers, exits late on how TikTok decides whose content gets boasted more( and less ). Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace: the proptech sector is hot despite WeWork

” Our mandatory is any technology that is able to tactical to the real estate industry ,” the prolific investor told Connie Loizos in an extended interview for Extra Crunch the coming week. While WeWork may have depressed some investor interest, plenty of patterns are working immense across numerous segments — so he and his partners are parent more monies. One of the hottest spheres, perhaps amazingly, is in sustainable structures. As Wallace items, public pressure, large-tenant pressure, large-investor pressure and new metro requirements have removed any pick that the industry has in such matters 😛 TAGEND

Make no mistake; we are front-and-center to what is happening in the real estate industry and the collision with technology, and this is the single-most-important thing that has happened to the real estate industry in the last five decades. The real estate industry is going to have to go carbon-neutral and that is brand-new.

Is this sector likewise your focus? Be sure to check out our survey of investors in structure robotics from last week to find out some of the most recent opportunities, plus our overview survey of real estate and prop tech investors from November.

The future of manufacturing and warehouse robotics

Ahead of our big robotics forum at UC Berkeley in early March, we have been producing a whole series of surveys on robotics horizontals. This week, our inhabitant business commentator Arman Tabatabai teamed up with our equipment journalist turned discussion organizer, Brian Heater, to do a series of interviews with VCs who are focused on warehouse and manufacturing robotics. Investors include 😛 TAGEND

Rohit Sharma, True Ventures Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Ventures Rick Prostko, Comcast Ventures Fatima Husain, Comcast Ventures Shahin Farshchi, Lux Capital Cyril Ebersweiler, SOSV& HAX Kelly Coyne, Grit Ventures